Sporting Kansas City was eliminated from MLS Cup contention after losing to Houston 2-1 aggreagate over the span of two games. They finished the year as US Open Cup Champions and a Kansas City team record of 63 points.

Absolutely. It's rare to see a team this good (relative to the rest of the league in which they play) at everything except for putting the ball into the net. I can't think of a recent true comparison in any league.

I love to root for these guys; they play hard and the organization is top-to-bottom excellent. They don't have a good chance of winning this league, but they will come heartbreakingly close. I don't see that changing outside of a DP striker that can actually finish.

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Some of those missed shots are heart breaking. We are due for a statistical correction.

Peterson is looking good. Im not sure whether Convey is still alive, but he is slowly losing his job.

As frustrating as the scoring drought is, it is hilarious watching other teams play 11 behind the ball for long stretches. No team in the league can hang up and down the field with kc except for san jose. Sporting will see more bunkering from the eastern conference the rest of the way. They will figure it out.

Apparently Steve Zakuani and Brian Mullen just traded jerseys after the SEA\COL game. That is an interesting iconic moment.

It was pretty cool I thought. Mullen looked genuinely sorry, if you can look that way, during the exchange.

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Some of those missed shots are heart breaking. We are due for a statistical correction.

Peterson is looking good. Im not sure whether Convey is still alive, but he is slowly losing his job.

As frustrating as the scoring drought is, it is hilarious watching other teams play 11 behind the ball for long stretches. No team in the league can hang up and down the field with kc except for san jose. Sporting will see more bunkering from the eastern conference the rest of the way. They will figure it out.

I want to see Kei, Saad, Sapong up top, with Soony in the middle.

They really did put all those guys back...there were so many ****ing guys in those boxes.

I agree that the law of averages will swing back our way some here. The Houston shots were disappointing the Chicago shots were pretty on point but SJ just did a tremendous job. At the end of the day you have to knock em in and do a better job of creating chances from the center.

They seem to always do this "good shot better shot" thing Mizzou does in basketball but the better shot always seems to break up.